I cant remember when i first saw the picture, and i certainly did not know where cold harbor was at the time. Im sure i thought it was a port town somewhere in virginia. I may not remember in which book i first saw the photograph, but i know that immediately and lastingly linked the words cold harbor and death in my mind. In subsequent years, i came to read more about the events of the spring of 1864 that culminated at cold harbor, that deadly slog from the rapid ann to the james that saw the u. S. Suffer 50,000 casualties, in the confederacy, another 30,000plus, the bloodiest six weeks of the war. I learned of the thousands who fell in the Early Morning on june 3rd. And i do know that there are differing schools of thought about what that number was. I learned that ulysses s. Grant would harbor terrible regrets about his decisions at cold harbor to the very end of his days. And i learned that even in a war in which the military and the public had become accustomed to horribly long cas
Stymied. Lee is any a powerful position and grant cant break through. What does he do . Maneuvers. He pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. This is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. The army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever Union Generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant moved south to the court house and lee gets awe finger of his army in front of grant and blocks him and theres brutal fighting in places with names like the mule shoe and the bloody age that will goes on for over a week, will be 10 days and then finally grant realizes he cant break through there so grant maneuvers again. He pulls the union army out from spots vain yeah courthouse and send the finger
Uconn triumphs over florida to topple the number one seed and wyoming defeats wisconsin with a dramatic threepoint buzzer beater. It will be an unlikely National Championship not seen in 35 years. Hey, good morning, everybody. Also coming up this morning, the royals are on the move. Prince william, kate and baby george heading down under. George following in his fathers footsteps. He took the same trip when he was roughly the same age. And the queen giving special permission to allow will and george to travel together, as typically, two heirs to the throne are not usually allowed to do so. The full report from new zealand. Their first stop coming up. Another big story from this part of the world. A possible break in the search for flight 370. First a chinese ship hears two fleeting electronic pulses in the indian ocean. Now in a separate area, the australians say they may have heard something as well. Its all happening as the batteries on those black boxes are quickly running out of ju
Congressional address. Now this is one of those things were, weve heard from him in his speech. He specifically noted all of the ways in which china has maintain stability over the last several years. And this was a speech, not just of the 2300 delegates who were there. It was also a speech in many ways to the world. We heard him noting all of the ways in which they have worked to protect their National Sovereignty and all of the ways in which they have modernized, not only their own industries within the country, but also modernize their men in their military. Rather now he did not specifically call out other countries such as the United States. However, we know that there has been increased tensions between beijing and washington, specifically when it comes to taiwan. Taiwan was mentioned there a number of times and it also did receive of flaws when president , she talked about the importance of main painting that National Sovereignty when it comes to china as a whole. Now we will co
We want to welcome our viewers here around the states and around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. At 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, the latest stop on the president s tour, he is in scotland. Mr. Trump is spending time there. The weekend at one of his golf resorts. This ahead of a summit with the russian president Vladimir Putin in helsinki, finland, that meeting became a little more complicated. On friday, the u. S. Justice department unloaded a bomb shell, indicting 12 Russian Military officers, accusing them of hacking into computers and the campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2016. U. S. Officials sayer that goal was to hurt clintons chances of being elected. President trump routinely dismisses the investigation as a witch hunt, without merit. Still he says he will bring it up when he speaks with Vladimir Putin on monday. Jessica snyder has more details of the environment. Reporter 12 Russian Hackers are charged with hacking into the Hillary Clinton campa